Falk Ostermann and Wolfgang Wagner

Note on Replication Files for 
�Introducing the International Treaty Ratification Votes Database�

Our analyses are based on the larger International Treaty Ratification Votes Database (ITRVD) and the related Parliamentary Deployment Votes Database (PDVD) Project that can be found under www.deploymentvotewatch.eu.

We did our analyses and figures for this article with Excel and SPSS.

Figure 1 to 4 are all done in Excel (see "replication figures 1 to 4.xlsx") on the basis of the ITRVD_votes data file. The Excel sheet therefore has the raw data from ITRVD_votes on its first sheet. 
Because the data from Turkey are not complete but only provide a sample, many descriptive statistics are based on the ITRVD data of all countries except Turkey. 
This is why the analyses for figures 1 to 4 all build on the sheet �ITRVD_parl-level without TUR�. 

Figure 5 is made in SPSS but builds on calculations done in Excel (see "data replication figure 5.xlsx"). 
Our replication files include three relevant files: 
1. "data replication figure 5.xlsx" provides the raw data of more than 11.000 party votes and, on the sheet �averages� the average number of no-votes for the parties of the same family in one of the three decades under study. 
2. The SPSS file �data replication figure 5.sav� is identical with the �averages� sheet of the excel file (the only additional work on the file was to add values for �family_num� which provides the labels on the graph and to adjust the number of decimals for averagenovotes.  
3. The SPSS do-file �do file figure 5.sps� provides the SPSS commands to produce figure 5.

